The plant in Moorside, north-west England, was expected to provide around 7 per cent of Britain's electricity when built, but has faced several setbacks after Toshiba's nuclear arm Westinghouse went bankrupt last year

British Prime Minister Theresa May met Hitachi Chairman Hiroaki Nakanishi last week in London and asked him to go ahead the project, conveying the government's intention to fully guarantee the loans, the paper said, without citing a source.